{"id":4743,"date":"2021-09-01T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2021-09-01T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:23:18","slug":"leading-the-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/09\/01\/leading-the-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading The Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I was the second-best dancer then. Mariza, with her long black hair waving down the front of a white cotton shirt, tucked into just-right faded jeans, controlled all of nature\u2019s choreography within her. Her feet skimmed the floor, easy on the beat. Her arms and legs flexed to the rhythm, finding a kind of body paradise. But following her movements, memorizing and imitating, I became frustrated and discouraged. Until I realized I wasn\u2019t destined to be a mirror. I would guide the expression of music I felt, becoming the lead dancer on that thin ledge, possessing my true 13-year-old self.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Yvonne Morris<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne is the author of the poetry chapbook Mother was a Sweater Girl (The Heartland Review Press). She has poetry and fiction forthcoming in Cathexis Northwest Press and Drunk Monkeys.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was the second-best dancer then. Mariza, with her long black hair waving down the front of a white cotton shirt, tucked into just-right faded jeans, controlled all of nature\u2019s choreography within her. Her feet skimmed the floor, easy on the beat. Her arms and legs flexed to the rhythm, finding a kind of body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6292,1677,10390,4736,6582,3309,7025,41,1291,1867,10391,4596,1347,9468,963,1818,1533,10392,3191,10389],"class_list":["post-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-beat","tag-body","tag-choreography","tag-dancer","tag-expression","tag-floor","tag-formation","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hair","tag-jeans","tag-lead-dancer","tag-ledge","tag-mirror","tag-movements","tag-music","tag-paradise","tag-rhythm","tag-self","tag-shirt","tag-yvonne-morris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4744,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions\/4744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}